Wichita Falls Spudders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:3XL The team began that first

The team began that first season as the Oak Ridge Bombers in Tennessee

358 with 33 home runs and a league-record 142 RBIs

After the Bi-State League closed in 1942

the Smokies remain a cherished memory for locals who long for the return of pro baseball

Mudville was a common derisive nickname for Stockton at the time

Wichita Falls Spudders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:3XL The team began that firstThe Wichita Falls Spudders carried one of the most distinctive names in Texas minor league baseball across nearly four decades. "Spudders" has nothing to do with potatoes: in the oil industry, to "spud" a well means to begin drilling it, and a spudder is the rig used for that initial phase. The franchise entered the Texas League in 1920, won the league championship in 1927, and joined the Big State League as a founding member in 1947. Frank Saucier